What Every State Executive Should Know

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What Every State Executive Should Know

• About
• Sustainable Buildings

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Executive Order D-16-00 Aug 2, 2000

• To site, design, deconstruct, renovate,
  operate, and maintain state buildings that are
  models of energy, water, and materials
  efficiency while providing healthy, productive
  and comfortable indoor environments and long-term
  benefits to Californians

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Objective

• To Raise Your Awareness About
• What sustainable buildings are
• How sustainable buildings create a healthier
  workplace
• Your role in promoting sustainable building
  practices

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Sustainability

• Fulfilling our needs in the present without
  compromising the potential to meet future needs
  through
• Reducing
• Recycling
• Renewable resources
• Redefining creative solutions for common problems

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Sustainable Buildings

• Balance human needs with environmental
  considerations including
• Energy, water, and materials efficiency
• Improved indoor environmental quality and comfort
• Environmentally preferable products and processes
• Improved siting

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Why We Need Sustainable Buildings

• Buildings and Their Infrastructure
• Produce over 25 of US greenhouse gases /year
• Consume almost 30 of US energy/year
• Generate 30 of CA solid waste/year
• Cost the state 600M/year for energy, water,
  waste disposal
• Cost CA 6B/year in sick building syndrome costs
• Affect occupant health, comfort, productivity

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Life Cycle Cost

• Sustainable building features may cost more on
  the front end however
• Over the life of a building
• initial building cost equals 2 of total costs
• OM equals 6 of total costs
• 92 of the life cycle cost of a building are
  personnel costs
• Sustainable buildings can increase worker
  productivity by 20-30!

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Sustainable Buildings are Better ..

• Energy, water, resource efficient
• 20-40 energy savings over Title 24 standards
• Improved indoor environment
• Lower VOC exposure
• Less mold
• Less airborne particle contamination
• Less pollutants causing eye, nose, skin
  irritation, headache, fatigue

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Better .. (continued)

• Environmentally preferable products and
  processes
• Recycled content, low air emissions, and more
• Less waste entering landfills -- up to 90 of
  construction waste recycled
• Superior design and construction methods
• Integrated design
• Optimized life cycle cost
• Post-occupancy evaluation

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Better .. (continued)

• Improved external environment
• Improved air quality and worker health from
  reducing commuting
• Recycled products and reduced waste conserves
  natural resources
• Improved quality of life in surrounding
  neighborhoods and communities

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Potential Impact of Sustainable Buildings

• The State currently spends over 2B/year for
  design, construction, and renovation
• 189 million sq. ft. of state-owned buildings.
• 21 million sq. ft. of leased space.
• Over 82B will be spent in the next 10 years
• Sustainable design in the Capitol East End
  Project will save 400K/year in energy
• 30 better than energy efficiency building
  standards!

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Potential Impact (continued)

• A 36 energy savings in State buildings could
  save 1.4 million megawatt hours annually ! (This
  equates to enough power for 280,000 California
  homes!)
• Demonstrated cost-effectiveness and environmental
  benefits will result in replication by private
  and other public building owners and operators

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Your Return on Investment

• Lower operating costs
• More efficient subsystems
• Lower life cycle ownership costs
• Design integration can lower lighting and HVAC
  loads
• Higher employee health and well being
• Reduced absenteeism, illness and fatigue
• Higher worker productivity and morale
• A friendlier work environment

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Your Role

• Make Sustainable Buildings Your Issue!
• Incorporate in your building projects
• Incorporate in your commodity purchases
• Insist on an integrated design approach
• Justify your projects on a life-cycle basis
• Support sustainable building efforts by others

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Where to Get More Information

• www.ciwmb.ca.gov/greenbuilding
• DGS/RESD Project Management Branch Lee
  Willoughby 322-5257
• DGS/Energy Management John Baca 324-1282
• California Leadership Institute Sustainable
  Building Group
• Sustainable Building Task Force Report
• Building Californias Sustainable Future,
• A Blueprint for State Facilities

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• Buildings can be designed, constructed,
  renovated, operated and maintained in a
  cost-effective and resource efficient manner.
• When we build, let us think that we build
  forever

-John Ruskin- (19th Century Artist)